Josh Gaffey's Blog
How to index the PublishingRollupImage field and map a metadata property in SharePoint 2007
The title of this post is a bit misleading because it’s actually not possible to index this field....
Date: 12/14/2009
Updating an item using ItemUpdating, ItemUpdated or any event receiver in SharePoint 2007
When using the Event Receivers in SharePoint a common scenario is to update a property on the item...
Date: 12/14/2009
Using SQL Management Studio as a domain user from a machine that is not on the domain in Windows Server 2008 R2
My main development machine is not domain joined, but I often need to use it to access domain...
Date: 10/29/2009
Crawling Large Lists in SharePoint 2007
There is a lot of information out there on working with large lists in SharePoint 2007. There is...
Date: 10/05/2009
I’ve got my SharePoint development environment setup, now what?
There are a bunch of posts out there on how to get your SharePoint development environment up and...
Date: 08/17/2009
Using custom web services in SharePoint
If you are developing custom SharePoint applications there is a good chance that you are going to...
Date: 08/17/2009
DataFormWebPart Parameters and ParameterBindings
Since my post on Easily Making the DataFormWebPart Reuseable, I’ve had a couple questions on the...
Date: 04/06/2009
Changing the SharePoint Welcome Page through code
Sometimes you will have a feature that you activate on a sub site where you want to change the...
Date: 04/06/2009
Custom Date Formats in SharePoint XSL
There are quite a few posts out there on this topic, but I’m yet to find one comprehensive post that...
Date: 03/25/2009
Using Resource Files (.resx) when developing SharePoint solutions
In the global economy that we live in today, we can no longer assume that everyone using our...
Date: 03/06/2009
Easily Making the Data Form Web Part reusable
There are plenty of examples out there of the many capabilities of the so called "Swiss Army" Web...
Date: 11/09/2008
Getting the Current User Name or ID in SharePoint using SharePoint Designer (no code)
A colleague sparked my interest in this today by asking me if getting the current user ID was...
Date: 06/03/2008
FileNotFoundException: The site with the id {GUID} could not be found.
This was an interesting problem that I ran into today that really stumped me for a while. The...
Date: 05/22/2008
Using XSLT in your SharePoint web part
I've been doing a lot of content management work with SharePoint lately, which means a lot of the...
Date: 03/14/2008
SharePoint 2007 Personalization Framework
I find that nearly all my customers want some level of personalization and targeting in their...
Date: 03/14/2008
Creating Lists and updating the default view programatically in SharePoint 2007
Recently a question came across a distribution list that I am a member of about updating the default...
Date: 03/14/2008
Add SharePoint lookup column declaratively through CAML XML
UPDATE: In the comments I’ve seen some people saying that this doesn’t work for them. One thing that...
Date: 03/14/2008
Turning off workflow and content approval for Document and Image libraries in Sharepoint 2007
I often get the question of how to turn off content approval for a publishing portal w/workflow....
Date: 01/03/2008
Sharepoint Edit in Datasheet locks or freezes Internet Explorer
I ran into an interesting issue in Sharepoint 2007 last week that took me a few hours to solve and...
Date: 12/04/2007